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Monthly Archives: February 2017
OpenCulture – Japanese Designers May Have Created the Most Accurate Map of Our World
“…last year, architect and artist Hajime Narukawa of Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance in Tokyo solved these problems with his AuthaGraph World Map, at the top, which won Japan’s Good Design Grand Award, beating out “over 1000 entries in a variety of categories,” writes Mental Floss. You can view it in a… Continue Reading
How reporters around the world risk their lives for the truth
Via GOOD – “Last May, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss a problem tragically common in the 21st century: dead journalists. In the new millennium, 876 journalists have been killed—with almost 40 percent of those deaths occurring in the last five years. Meanwhile, global press freedom is at its lowest point since 2003,… Continue Reading
A Critique of the Conventional Problematisation of Social Immobility in Elite Legal Education and the Profession
Ferguson, Lucinda, Complicating the ‘Holy Grail’, Simplifying the Search: A Critique of the Conventional Problematisation of Social Immobility in Elite Legal Education and the Profession (February 16, 2017). The Law Teacher, Vol. 51, (Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2919051 “This article challenges the conventional problematisation of and response to insufficient socio-economic diversity in elite legal education… Continue Reading
CrowdJustice
“CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform built for legal cases. We launched in May 2015, as a way to democratise access to the legal system. We wanted to help make the law a powerful tool for everyone – not just a tool for the powerful. We’ve since seen cases challenge the government, go to the Supreme… Continue Reading
That One Privacy Guy’s Guide to Choosing the Best VPN
“The following is intended to be a detailed guide to answer the question, “How do I choose the best VPN (for me)?” The reason this is a hard thing to help people with, is that their needs and level of technical knowledge vary greatly – there is no one perfect VPN, they all have at… Continue Reading
The real National Treasure: US presidential libraries
Oxford University Press Blog: “…A presidential library is actually two things,” Giller [Melissa Giller, Chief Marketing Officer for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Institute in Simi Valley, California] describes. “It’s a museum that anyone can come and visit and tour through…and it is a library.” The library is, more often than not, the private… Continue Reading
WaPo – Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants
David Nakamura, The Washington Post – “Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border. In a pair of memos, Kelly offered more detail on plans for the agency to hire thousands of additional enforcement… Continue Reading
US students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries
Pew Research Center – “How do U.S. students compare with their peers around the world? Recently released data from international math and science assessments indicate that U.S. students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations. One of the biggest cross-national tests is the Programme for International… Continue Reading
Some animal welfare data removed from USDA site is restored
Follow up to previous postings – Animal welfare information wiped from USDA website – today via The Hill – USDA reposts some animal welfare records after outcry: “The Department of Agriculture on Friday February 17, 2017] reposted some of the animal welfare records it had removed from its website, after outcry from animal rights groups… Continue Reading
2016 American Household Credit Card Debt Study
“NerdWallet analyzed data from several sources, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the U.S. Census Bureau, to determine how much debt Americans are carrying, why they have so much debt and how this debt will grow and affect the U.S. economy in the future. As part of NerdWallet’s mission to deliver clarity… Continue Reading
WaPo – NASA is posting climate change science info on social media that contradict views of Trump and his top officials
NASA is posting climate change science info on social media that contradict views of Trump and his top officials: “If you peruse NASA’s social media feeds dedicated to climate change, you would have no clue a new administration has taken power that has expressed doubts about the reality or seriousness of the issue. Every day, NASA has… Continue Reading
